Easter

We had a great Easter weekend! Travis participated in the Easter service at our church, we had Grandpa and Grandma Nelson here for the entire weekend, and we did lots of family bonding. Coloring eggs was a lot of fun, but there are no great pictures of that, sorry.


Eggs were left in the shoes! We have gotten smarter over the years, when the eggs are put in the shoes, the dogs are put behind a locked door until morning.



All the baskets waiting for the kids to wake up. We didn't have to wait long, they were up and digging though them by 6:15AM.


The best picture I could get of all 4 kids. There were a crazy amount of out-takes.


All six of us! Tallie wanted nothing to do with the camera, she was hiding behind the chair.

Ninjas, rain, and bread pudding.

Maddox found a "friend" in the basement this morning while heading down to get a bat mobile. He's since named the "friend" Ninja-Mouse. I've named the "friend", Dead. I don't want him in the house. Hopefully he loves peanut butter as much as the dogs do (who now have to stay out of the basement because they are getting the trap stuck on their noses trying to eat Ninja-Mouse's peanut butter.



I don't know about you, but when I'm stuck inside because of Spring thunderstorms I always eat conversation hearts, that are leftover from Valentine's Day and pose with my superheroes while watching Super Why.




Since it's a dreary day, I'm going to bake! I haven't done much of that since starting work again in the fall and I miss it. Today's delight is going to be Magpie's Bread Pudding. Thinking about it makes me really excited for the end of today :) I'm also going to try my hand at London Broil, it's been YEARS since I've done that. As a matter of fact, Travis banned it about 6 yrs ago when I started our oven on fire with the last London Broil I attempted. Hopefully tonight's will go better, not be charred beyond recognition and taste as amazing as it does in my head.

New "Faces in the Ferris House.

Recently, we discovered that Maddox had this terrible habbit of never making eye contact, but mostly when he was in trouble. When his teacher noticed it as well, we realized it was always his right eye that was never looking at us, so we made an appointment with the eye doctor. We discovered that Maddox has a lazy/wandering eye, so naturally, we felt like stellar parents for constantly yelling, "Look at me when I'm talking to you!"

The doctor was very helpful and thinks that with the correct prescription, his brain will start relying on both eyes for sight, rather than ignoring the one with the bad picture, which was causing his eye to wander. At first, we were concerned that Maddox would not like the idea of glasses until he interrupted us say, "2 things, first I want blue glasses, and I want them to look like Clark Kent."

I suppose when he's older, he'll figure out that Clark Kent's glasses are black, but I figure, I'll buy anything that makes my kid happy about wearing glasses! Maddox was so EXCITED to pick up the glasses, that he even wore his Superman cape to pick them up to make sure they made him look just right.

He looks pretty stinkin' cute in the glasses and I'm happy that he's adjusted well to wearing them; he let's every stranger he meets that he can only take the glasses off for showers, swimming, and sleeping.

The dogs, not wanting Maddox to be the only Ferris with a new look, tried out being heroes for a day. Neither lasted more than 3.7 seconds with the mask on. They have a lot of work to do if they plan to make a career out of going incognito.